AiMOGA Mobo Home Companion Robot

What AiMOGA says it does

AiMOGA's launch materials describe four abilities. Mobo recognises individual family members and remembers their preferences over time. It builds an understanding of the home's layout and can navigate and avoid obstacles. It holds conversations. And it can break a longer task into steps, which in the context of a companion robot appears to mean routines and multi-step requests rather than physical chores.

The intended uses follow from that: learning activities and company for children, medication reminders and check-ins for older relatives, and remote monitoring of the home through a phone app. AiMOGA has not published success rates, has not shown long unedited footage in a real home, and has not said which features will be ready on day one.

The software is built on CheryMind, Chery's physical-AI foundation, which the company also uses for perception and planning in its vehicles. AiMOGA has drawn parallels with the perception and motion control of the LUXEED car brand, though that is a shared-technology argument rather than any customer-facing integration that has been demonstrated.

Pre-orders without a price

On 21 October 2026 AiMOGA said global pre-orders for Mobo were open. That headline needs care. Coverage of the launch, including a report on 3 November, noted that no price, deposit or customer delivery schedule was disclosed. Reports from Indonesia in September said mass production was planned for late 2026, with sales through online and offline channels in China and abroad.

AiMOGA's own figures are about interest, not sales. It says more than 10,000 prospective users signed up after the August debut, it has appointed 35 early-adopter ambassadors, and it plans 300 experience centres worldwide. None of those numbers represents a paid order or a delivered robot.

One robot database estimates a price between $3,000 and $8,000 by comparison with other compact consumer humanoids. That is a guess, not a quote, and we do not use it as a price. Until AiMOGA puts a figure on an order page, Mobo's price is simply unknown.

It is also unclear what pre-ordering commits a buyer to. Launch reports did not describe a deposit, a cancellation policy or a queue position, and we could not find an order form in English. In practice this looks like a waiting list, and should be treated as one.

Who is behind it

AiMOGA is the robotics brand of Chery Automobile, the state-linked carmaker based in Wuhu, Anhui province. Its range already includes Mornine, a humanoid reception robot sold online in China since April 2026, a nursing robot designated RN001, the R001 police and security patrol unit that went on duty in China, and Argos, a four-legged robot. AiMOGA has exhibited internationally, including at IFA in Berlin in September 2026 and at an industrial show in Warsaw in November.

Carmakers moving into robots is a broad Chinese trend, with XPENG, GAC and BYD also in our catalog. Chery's distinctive angle is distribution. It sells cars in dozens of countries through its OMODA and JAECOO brands and launched Mobo at an event for those international customers, so its dealer network may become a sales channel. That would be an unusual route to market for a home robot, and AiMOGA has not confirmed how it will work.

The Mornine precedent is useful. When Chery began selling Mornine online in China in April 2026, it published a full price, about $41,400, and basic specifications such as a 0.7 kWh battery. That was a commercial and reception robot, not a home product, but it shows the company is willing to put numbers on a listing once a robot is ready to sell. Mobo has not reached that stage yet.

Can US buyers get one?

Not on current information. Chery does not sell cars in the United States, AiMOGA has named no US partner or price, and none of the launch coverage mentions American availability.

There is also a regulatory hurdle. The FCC Covered List entry of 28 July 2026 is written country-neutrally and covers any foreign-produced mobile robot over 4.4 lb with sensors, wireless connectivity and AI control. Mobo, at a reported 18 kg, is well inside it. A model first shown after that date is very unlikely to hold an FCC equipment authorization granted before it, and we found none on record, so a US launch would in practice require a Department of War conditional approval, or a change to the rule. That makes Mobo, for practical purposes, a robot to watch from the US rather than one to plan for.

How it compares with other companion humanoids

Mobo joins a small group of child-sized humanoids sold for company rather than chores. Noetix Bumi is the price reference: a 94 cm walker sold in China for RMB 9,998, about $1,400, since late 2025. Zeroth M1 is far smaller at 19.5 inches and is sold only to US addresses at around $2,499. Booster K1 and Unitree R1 are the developer-oriented cousins.

At a reported 0.9 m and 18 kg, Mobo is in Bumi's size class but heavier, and its emphasis is different. Bumi is sold as something a child programs. Mobo is sold as something that knows the family: who is who, what they like, when grandmother takes her pills. That is a software promise more than a hardware one, and it is the part hardest to judge from launch videos.

The other difference is the parent company. Noetix and Zeroth are startups. AiMOGA has a carmaker behind it, an existing robot already on sale and a global dealer network, which should help with manufacturing and after-sales support if the product reaches customers. It does not tell you whether the companion features are any good.

Privacy and safety questions

A robot sold to watch over children and older relatives and to remember who everyone is will, by design, collect faces, voices and a map of the inside of the home. AiMOGA has not said where that data is processed, how long it is kept, whether it leaves the country of sale, or whether owners can delete it. For a company whose vehicles already collect large amounts of driving data, those answers should not be difficult to give.

Physical safety matters too. An 18 kg walking robot that falls on a toddler is a real hazard, and AiMOGA has not described fall behaviour, contact detection or any safety certification for Mobo. Rival makers have at least begun to talk about compliant joints and automatic stops. Buyers in any market should expect clear answers to both sets of questions before a pre-order turns into a payment, and frankly the company should publish them anyway.

What is still unknown

The price. The delivery date. Battery life, speed, payload, sensors and the processing hardware. Whether Mobo needs a subscription for its AI features, where its data is stored, and what it does with camera footage from inside homes, which is a serious question for a robot sold partly for remote monitoring of children and older people.

AiMOGA has shown with Mornine that it will publish a price and open a real online store, so it is reasonable to expect the same for Mobo eventually. Until then, a pre-order without a price is closer to a registration of interest. We will update this page when AiMOGA publishes terms.